Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 5
When an adult greets you, you look at them, smile and say hello back.
Who acts: adult, you · What happens: greet, look, smile, say back · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting adults and teachers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adult, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 greets | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 adult | det |
| 3 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 greets | nsubj |
| 4 | greets | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 greets | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 greets | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 look | nsubj |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smile | punct |
| 12 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 look | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 say | cc |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 look | conj |
| 15 | hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 14 say | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 say | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | present | a adult | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | present | you | at adults = adult | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smile | infinitive | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say back speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers.lesson:5.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
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